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Wow, no overclocking? There used to be huge gains in the past overclocking. How did you ever resist? I remember managing to overclock one of my CPUs and literally nearly doubled its performance! Many of my GPUs would overclock 20% or more also as I recall. How did you resist overclocking all your life?
To answer your question, no it ain’t worth paying the £30 when you can do a manual overclock or even use the oc scanner tool that will give you more performance. The GPUs are identical as far as I know, just one has better clocks out of the box which it is guaranteed to work at and if it does not you are in your right to RMA. As I highly doubt they binned these, there will be zero difference apart from this. Silicon lottery will be more important so if lucky you could get a non OC that overclocks much better than a OC one can overclock.
But again, how do you not know all this being a member here 10 years?
Yes I managed to pick up a ASUS TUF for £649 but I get the feeling I won’t get my hands on it until next month. Bit sad really, Nvidia really messed up the launch. They created a frenzy due to their marketing but did not have enough stock to supply the demand. They should have launched 4 weeks later and built up supply to avoid all this. All this has done is let scalpers and gaugers make extra profit at end users expense.
The upside of this is it gives me time to see what else is coming out and if there is something more suitable I can cancel my order.
Have you picked anything, if not you will likely be having to wait until November unless you are willing to get shafted and severely over pay
I was going to go for that but seen a review mention about coil whine on this Asus TUF OC. I know its usually pure luck if you get one with coil whine or not on most cards but i can't stand coil whine does my head in.
Yeah looks like all MSI and the Zotac trinity are lower than the rest.There are differences and (especially) the 3x 8pin cards can do a lot more but for example here's a weird thing, the TUF OC with 2x 8pin can do 375W (pl max, doable, many 2080ti before had the 380W bios and even more) and on the other side the MSI X-Trio with 3x 8pins only does 320W (340 PL maxed out).
Come on MSI, you can do better, it's your flagship model (even with less gpu phases than the TUF) .
RTX 3080 buy button is back on the Nvidia site but it doesn’t let you add to cart.
RTX 3080 buy button is back on the Nvidia site but it doesn’t let you add to cart.
They are indeed
